1The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.[ † ]Jeremiah 50Jeremiah 51Matthew 1:11Revelation 14:8
2Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.[ † ]Isaiah 18:3Jeremiah 51:25Isaiah 10:32 3I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.[ † ]Joel 3:11Psalms 149:2 4The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the Lord of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.[ † ]Isaiah 17:12Joel 3:14 5They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the Lord , and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.[ † ]Isaiah 42:13Isaiah 24:1Isaiah 34:2
6Howl ye; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.[ † ]Isaiah 2:12Ezekiel 30:3Amos 5:18Zephaniah 1:7Revelation 6:17Isaiah 10:25Job 31:23Joel 1:15 7Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt: 8and they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.[ † ]Psalms 48:6
9Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.[ † ]Malachi 4:1Psalms 104:35Proverbs 2:22 10For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.[ † ]Isaiah 24:21-23Ezekiel 32:7Joel 2:31Matthew 24:29Mark 13:24Luke 21:25 11And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.[ † ]Isaiah 26:21Isaiah 2:17 12I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir. 13Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the Lord of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.[ † ]Isaiah 34:4Isaiah 51:6Haggai 2:6Psalms 110:5Lamentations 1:12 14And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land.[ † ]Jeremiah 50:16Jeremiah 51:9 15Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword. 16Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.[ † ]Psalms 137:8-9Isaiah 13:18Isaiah 14:21Hosea 10:14Nahum 3:10Zechariah 14:2
17Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.[ † ]Isaiah 21:2Jeremiah 51:11-28Daniel 5:28-31 18Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children. 19And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.[ † ]Isaiah 14:4Daniel 4:30Revelation 18:11-16, 19, 21Genesis 19:24Deuteronomy 29:23Jeremiah 50:40Amos 4:11 20It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.[ † ]Jeremiah 50:3 21But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.[ † ]Isaiah 34:11-15Zephaniah 2:14Revelation 18:2 22And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.[ † ]Jeremiah 51:33